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From the WaPo:

'Just over one-in-four Democrats (27%), however, favor prosecuting those who don’t agree with global warming.'

'Unchanged is the 63% who say that debate is not done yet. Thirteen percent (13%) are not sure.' 

'Predictably, Oreskes and McKibben draw a different conclusion, one entirely unsupported by the evidence.'

Contrary to what Oreskes and McKibben believe, unearthing the thoughts of Exxon scientists from the late 1970s and 1980s illustrates a tendency among some scientists — even those in the pay of an oil company — to be prone to alarmism and to overstate what is known. Predictably, Oreskes and McKibben draw a different conclusion, one entirely unsupported by the evidence. Had Exxon been up-front about the dangers of global warming, we might have started to decarbonize decades ago, Oreskes argues. Instead, Exxon had behaved like tobacco companies who had “long delayed” public understanding by suppressing the truth about the deadly nature of their products.

Democrat Sen. Whitehouse: Use RICO Laws to Prosecute Global Warming Skeptics

Climate Depot Responds: 'The warmists have it exactly backwards. It is the global warming proponents who are guilty of the tobacco tactics.'

Sen. Whitehouse (D-RI): 'In 2006, Judge Gladys Kessler of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia decided that the tobacco companies’ fraudulent campaign amounted to a racketeering enterprise...The parallels between what the tobacco industry did and what the fossil fuel industry is doing now are striking.'

Related Link: Merchants of Smear: Prosecute Skeptics Like Gangsters?! Warmist Naomi Oreskes likes the idea of having climate ‘deniers’ prosecuted under the RICO act (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) - Oreskes: 'I think a RICO style of prosecution if a smart lawyer thought there was some aspect of the law that had been broken'

Watch: The Uncomfortable Pause; Warmist EDF climate expert explains lack of global warming: ‘I, the, yeh, uhh…’

Heartland Institute reviews debate: 'Morano brought the facts — relentlessly and firmly. Andress was criminally uninformed for someone in her position. She spent so much time stammering, everyone who is a part of EDF or supports it should be embarrassed.'

Morano: 'The UN would like you to think there is no debate. The IPCC is a political body masquerading as a science body. And the points EDF's Carol Andress just made are demonstrably not true...On climate timescales of 50-100 [extreme weather] is either falling short of predictions or going in the opposite direction.'

Morano: 'Climate is governed by hundreds of factors...CO2 is not the control knob of the climate. That is where the debate is and the idea that it is settled is absurd. There are so many scientists dissenting.' - The UN IPCC has an agenda. They openly say they want to redistribute wealth by climate policy. So they are using the science as a partisan political campaign effort for centralized government planning through the United Nations. It's a self enrichment tool, self-interest tool and a way they can be in charge of the developing world's development.'

Two Democratic lawmakers held a briefing Thursday to argue that climate change skeptics use similar arguments and tactics to those who believed that tobacco and lead are not harmful. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Rep. Henry Waxman (R-Calif.) said similar conservative interests have been behind many of movements that have been discredited,

Climate Depot Response: Warmists trot out tobacco smear to demean skeptics: Climate Depot Responds: 'The warmists have it exactly backwards. It is the global warming proponents who are guilty of the tobacco tactics.'

Pielke Sr.: 'The AAAS report is even worse than the AGU and AMS Statements (and I thought that would be hard to do)' -- 'They also ignore the recent recognition of the heightened importance of natural climate forcings and feedbacks.'

Rips AAAS for linking Tobacco to CO2: 'The science linking human activities to climate change is analogous to the science linking smoking to lung and cardiovascular diseases.' show that this report is just political theater. There are no health benefits from smoking, only health risks. CO2 is required for life on Earth including plant growth and function...to directly COMPARE to the health risks of tobacco demeans the scientific stature of this who make such wild claims.'

Flashback: Climate Depot Responds to Smoking climate claims: 'The warmists have it exactly backwards. It is the global warming proponents who are guilty of the tobacco tactics.'

Climate Depot Responds: 'The warmists have it exactly backwards. It is the global warming proponents who are guilty of the tobacco tactics.'